Crossover with Mob Mentailty Part 2

21/10/2025 46 min Episodio 82
Crossover with Mob Mentailty Part 2

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Key Topics[05:30] Cross-disciplinary mobbing with firmware and hardware engineers in IoT development[12:45] Addressing efficiency objections: Local vs global optimization in embedded teams[18:20] DevOps collaboration patterns and reducing friction between software and infrastructure teams[25:10] Selling mob programming to management: Building trust through continuous delivery[35:40] Dynamic team composition and the law of personal mobility in technical teams[42:15] Coordinating mob teams with waterfall processes and hardware gate systems[48:30] Automated firmware protocol documentation and testing infrastructureNotable Quotes"When you initially hear about mobbing, you think everybody's inactive, but there's a lot of excess thought capacity around programming that can happen - somebody can be thinking about refactorings while others are typing the solution." — Chris Lucian"If you're all there, that whole feedback loop can happen in 15 minutes as opposed to 15 days. It's like technical debt - you pay now or pay later, and if you pay later, it's going to be more expensive." — Austin Chadwick"We tend to have multiple releases a day all the way to production. Most mobs will deliver to production at least twice a day - four hours of work and then deliver to prod." — Chris LucianResources MentionedMob Mentality Show - Podcast dedicated to mob programming practices and extreme programming techniquesKent Beck's Test-Driven Development Book - Foundational resource for understanding true TDD practices in embedded developmentAmy Edmondson's Teaming Book - Framework for understanding high uncertainty and high interdependence scenarios in technical teamsLiminal Thinking - Mental framework for breaking through belief-based barriers in agile transformation
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